Environmental Threat II

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Archibald
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Private Colleges ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
State Appropriation ◽  
State Budgets ◽  
Real Value

Changes in public funding of higher education have affected cost, price, and access. State budgets have become more volatile in recent years, and this has increased budget uncertainty for public institutions. In addition, the real value of state appropriation has trended downward in most states for many years. Public universities continue to fall further behind selective private competitors in spending per student. Falling quality at many public universities affects time to graduation and graduation rates, and the burden falls disproportionately on less-well-off students. We risk a bifurcation of our higher education system into well-funded selective private colleges and a less selective underfunded public sector that serves the bulk of the nation’s most vulnerable students.

The Evolutionary Future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Archibald
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Education System ◽  
Private Colleges ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Future

The higher education system is resilient. Disruption is not around the corner. Yet the future is not secure. There has been a growing bifurcation of the system into a set of well-resourced institutions that serve families with means and a group of underresourced institutions that serve the bulk of the nation’s underprivileged students. The schools most at risk are nonselective public institutions and financially weaker small private colleges. This chapter describes how the turbulence buffeting the higher education system is likely to play out among our diverse higher education institutions, and how this may affect social mobility in the future.

Ethiopian new public universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Van Deuren ◽  
Tsegazeab Kahsu ◽  
Seid Mohammed ◽  
Wondimu Woldie
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
System Level ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
New Public ◽  
And Gender

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze and illustrate achievements and challenges of Ethiopian higher education, both at the system level and at the level of new public universities. Design/methodology/approach – Achievements and challenges at the system level are based on literature review and secondary data. Illustrative case studies are based on university data and interviews with university representatives. Findings – The Ethiopian higher education system has increased its enrollments substantially. The construction of 13 new universities that started enrolling students around 2007 contributed greatly to this achievement. Challenges accompanying this growth lie in funding, quality and quantity of staffing, teaching practices, research and community service, quality assurance and gender balance. Originality/value – The present study contributes to existing literature by describing case studies illustrating challenges and achievements in new public universities in Ethiopian higher education.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF RESULT BASED FINANCING HIGHER EDUCATION

THE BULLETIN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (390) ◽  
pp. 50-57
Author(s):  
Iryna Kalenyuk ◽  
Olena Grishnova ◽  
Liudmyla Tsymbal ◽  
Deniss Djakons
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The World ◽  
Financing Higher Education

The key role of the education system in the formation of a knowledge society is raising the issue of improving its financing. In the face of new challenges and aggravation of global competition, the mechanism for financing the higher education system is being transformed. The need to increase funding is manifested in expanding financial sources and improving the management of various financial flows. Increasing the effectiveness of public funding is becoming an important issue, which remains the main source of financial revenues for institutions of higher education in countries of the world. A promising practice in the world is the use of funding based on the results of activity, which is becoming more widespread in various areas of economic activity. The purpose of this article is to study the current world-wide practice of applying results-based financing of higher education and defining promising directions for its implementation in Ukraine. The essence and features of RBF - Result Based Financing (RBF) method, including in the system of higher education, are revealed. The existing approaches to financing higher education institutions in the world based on results are systematized, the main criteria for their definition are identified: on the basis of inputs, process, output, output. The world practice of using higher education institutions financing based on the results, positive and negative consequences of its implementation is highlighted and summarized. The necessity of using RBF funding in the system of native education is proved, the main directions and areas of its use are determined. The application of a two-tier model of financing higher education institutions in Ukraine is proposed, which combines the traditional cost-oriented approach and funding based on the results of the activity.

scholarly journals THE RELEVANCY OF SELF DEVELOPMENT AND ACADEMIC EXPATRIATES’ CAREER IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES OF MALAYSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (37) ◽  
pp. 253-269
Author(s):  
Irma Wani Othman ◽  
Muhammad Safuan Yusoff ◽  
Mohd Sohaimi Esa ◽  
Mohd Azri Ibrahim ◽  
Budi Anto Mohd Tamring ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Self Development ◽  
To Come ◽  
Depth Interviews

The presence of international staff or independent expatriate academicians in the cross border higher education world today is indeed a global issue that brings benefits to the development of higher education worldwide. The decision taken by independent expatriate academicians to come to the host country to pursue a career as an academician will certainly have useful implications on the career they are pursuing. Through in-depth interviews based on a qualitative approach adopted on thirty (30) selected voluntarily respondents in three public universities, the objective of this study was to find out the implications on self-development of careers as independent expatriate academicians serving in the host country. From the findings received as a result of the interviews conducted, the implications for self-development in terms of the career which could be seen were (I) Promotion (II) Lucrative income (III) Security in Malaysia and (IV) Harmony in the workplace. From each finding stated by the respondents involved, it had been proven that the decision was taken by independent expatriate academicians to the host country in pursuing a career as an academician had given the positive implication that indirectly brought benefits to themselves. The implications for self-development on a career as an independent expatriate academician were also able to lead to the retention of human resources of independent expatriate academicians which can reduce the turnover rate in an organisation such as academics in Malaysian Public Institutions of Higher Learning.

Environmental Threat I

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Archibald
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
First Century ◽  
Student Debt ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Tuition Discounting ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
Education Industry ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Higher Education Industry

Changes in the American income distribution since the 1970s are a major source of turbulence in the higher education industry. Family incomes at the bottom of the distribution have not grown since the 1960s, while family incomes at the top have soared. For families in the middle- and upper-middle-income groups, incomes have been flat in the twenty-first century. We show how this sea change in inequality helps fuel the increase in tuition discounting, the rise in student debt, and the separation of the higher education system into well-resourced institutions for the haves and poorly financed institutions for the have-nots.

scholarly journals Approximation to a model of governance in public Universities of the province of Pichincha of Ecuador

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-137
Author(s):  
Betzabé del Rosario Maldonado Mera ◽  
José Javier Buenaño Cabrera ◽  
Karla Viviana Benavides Espinosa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Education System ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Higher Education Organizations ◽  
Institutional Representation

In the last decade, Ecuador's higher education system observes substantial changes, whose dynamics has stressed marked transformations within universities. This work follows the research from the perspective of internal governance, to make an approach to the prevailing models in universities involved in the study. The analysis considers a systemic approach, where the term governance is associated with the government's ability to define the work of higher education institutions and forms of internal organization to fulfill the role granted. The study is documentary type eminently qualitative, based on sources of information obtained from official websites of universities and various higher education organizations. In a complementary manner, a questionnaire was applied through a survey to advisers from the same institutions to confirm or contrast the conclusions generated. The principles of governance considered in the study are autonomy, academic freedom, accountability, participation and institutional representation. The results show that the control mechanisms implemented by the State influence within universities and shape differences in models exercised governance.

scholarly journals Mongolia's Challenge: Becoming Asian in Higher Education

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Postiglione
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Republic

Despite the global economic crisis, the Republic of Mongolia is determined to move ahead in restructuring its higher education system. But, Government spending on higher education is severely limited in comparison to other regional players. Also, the quality of private higher education has yet to surpass that of the public institutions. The economy is currently too weak to support the large number of university graduates, and many are seeking employment elsewhere.

Performance Evaluation System as a Base for Designing the Intellectual Capital Report

2020 ◽  
pp. 261-286
Author(s):  
Bojan Krstić ◽  
Tamara Rađenović
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Performance Evaluation System ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Measurement And Evaluation ◽  
New Strategies

The 21st century is envisaged to be an era of the highest growth of the higher education (HE) system with multiple qualitative and developmental changes. Namely, public universities are faced with numerous challenges: reduction of public funding, public accountability, cost efficiency, digitization, marketization, social corporate responsibility, and competition. In order to cope with these changes, governments have been implementing new strategies with the aim to improve the economic efficiency of HE systems and achieve optimal utilization of public resources. Hence, there is a growing demand for the measurement, management and reporting of university performances. Based on the developed conceptual framework of integral performance measurement and evaluation system of universities in Serbia, this chapter provides a framework for intellectual capital (IC) reporting system according to the needs, characteristics, organization, and functions of the Serbian public universities.

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